Track equipment performance, receive maintenance alerts, manage energy use, and monitor critical conditions across every location. Open Kitchen helps your team catch problems early, reduce operating costs, and avoid costly downtime
Enterprise Fleet Visibility: View connected Pitco fryers by location, asset health status, and equipment usage history so teams can focus attention where it is needed most.
Remote Menu Management: Remotely update recipes, manage LTOs, and monitor menu mix across locations to improve consistency and operational control.
OilSmart Analytics: Track oil quality and disposal timing to identify locations discarding oil too early or extending it beyond established quality targets.
Filtration & Compliance Insights: Monitor filtering activity, filter skips, and boilout events to reinforce standard practices and improve visibility across the fryer fleet.
Actionable Equipment Alerts: Receive configurable notifications for faults, maintenance triggers, and connectivity issues to support faster service triage and reduce avoidable downtime.
Remote Troubleshooting & Reporting: Review asset history, operating timelines, and exportable reports to investigate recurring issues and support data-based operational decisions.
Reduced Oil Volume Gas Dual Fryer System
High Efficiency Gas 18″ x 18″ Triple Fryer
High Efficiency Gas 14″ Dual Fryer
Electric 14″ Triple Fryer with Filter Drawer with 10.1″ OneTouch Controls
Open Kitchen helps operators manage fryer performance more proactively by combining oil analytics, filtration insights, equipment alerts, and remote recipe updating in one platform. Teams can use this data to reduce oil waste, standardize execution, and target service opportunities before they become costly downtime.
At a national food retailer with over 100 locations, food quality isn’t negotiable. But fryers are one of the hardest pieces of equipment to keep consistent across stores. Oil is expensive, temperatures drift over time, and how fryers get used depends heavily on who is working that shift.
Open Kitchen connected the retailer’s Pitco fryers and gave real-time visibility into temperature data, oil quality indicators, and usage patterns. With centrally managed recipes, they could lock in proper fryer set points remotely, ensuring temperatures stayed correct even after filtering or maintenance.
The data revealed issues that would have stayed hidden otherwise. In one case, fryer temperatures kept drifting back to an older set point even though a new SOP was in place. Operators were reverting to familiar settings without realizing it mattered. The team caught it, retrained staff, and used Open Kitchen to prevent the drift from happening again. Oil quality tracking also improved, helping the retailer balance cost control with food quality instead of guessing when to change oil.
The result: more consistent temperatures across locations, better adherence to culinary standards, faster identification of training gaps, and improved balance between oil cost and product quality, all without adding oversight or complexity.
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